DMA -- difference between base and port?

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:12:02 +0100, Dan Mahoney (Gushi)  
<freebsd at gushi.org> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> At the day job we've been using mail/dma port for a number of years now,  
> and the rollout and config of files in /usr/local/etc/dma is part of our  
> deploy process.
>
> It only recently occurred to us that there was a "dma" in base since  
> probably 11.0 (whomever wrote the release notes missed that -- and the  
> manpage doesn't mention when it was added to FreeBSD).
>
> We notice that the "newaliases" function in /etc/mail/mailer.conf is  
> missing from the port version -- which means if you're using ports dma,  
> you probably want to set newaliases to something like /usr/bin/true (dma  
> doesn't use an aliases db, so there's no need to rebuild one, as  
> newaliases would).  Again. something we noticed in our deployment  
> process with puppet.
>
> I can't find a feature-by-feature comparison for what one would install  
> the port for (other than inertia, like we have).
>
> There's no "version" command that I can find in DMA. (tried -h, -?, -v  
> --version, -V).
>
> Does "our" DMA track the Dragonfly version (like the base sendmail or  
> openssl track world) or is it completely forked and unlikely to  
> incorporate changes?  This would be useful in feature comparison.
>
> Is it worth mentioning this in the pkg-message for mail/dma?
>
> -Dan
>

On 13-CURRENT I have:
# more /usr/src/contrib/dma/VERSION
v0.11

But the version nr doesn't tell the whole story. There are some code syncs  
after 0.11.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commits/master/contrib/dma

There is a PR to upgrade base to 0.13 already.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244630

Would love to see a sync with even newer code. I made a fix upstream  
myself.

Regards,
Ronald.